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Tom Lantos

1928 - 2008

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Thomas Peter Lantos (born Tamás Péter Lantos; February 1, 1928 – February 11, 2008) was a Hungarian-born American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1981 until his death in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 11th congressional district until 1993, and from then the 12th congressional district, which both included the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of the southwestern part of San Francisco after redistricting. Lantos, who served as Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in his last term, announced in early January 2008 that he would not run for re-election because of cancer of the esophagus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Lantos has received more than 848,350 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Tom Lantos is the 13,151st most popular politician (down from 13,150th in 2019), the 457th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 493rd in 2019) and the 112th most popular Hungarian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tom Lantos ranks 13,151 out of 15,577. Before him are Ottokar I of Styria, Mohammad Natsir, Amrit Kaur, René Goblet, Mariano Ignacio Prado, and Ernestas Galvanauskas. After him are Lascăr Catargiu, Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut, Cuthbert Sebastian, Ivan Babushkin, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, and Odilon Barrot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Tom Lantos ranks 346. Before him are Dezső Bundzsák, Koko Taylor, Serge Bourguignon, Alice Drummond, Mário Pinto de Andrade, and William Trevor. After him are Simón Díaz, Marian Seldes, Barbara Ann Scott, Sivaji Ganesan, Lucho Gatica, and Flóra Kádár. Among people deceased in 2008, Tom Lantos ranks 210. Before him are Ricardo Infante, Heinz Kwiatkowski, Rina Zaripova, Sarla Thakral, Neil Aspinall, and Patrick Hillery. After him are Ollie Johnston, Mustafa Khalil, Gary Gygax, Nikolai Baibakov, Dith Pran, and Badri Patarkatsishvili.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Tom Lantos ranks 457 out of 866. Before him are Jenő Rejtő (1905), Miklós Szabados (1912), Joseph Böhm (1795), Gábor Király (1976), István Fekete (1900), and Antal Szalay (1912). After him are Victor Varconi (1891), György Lázár (1924), János Pilinszky (1921), Ferenc Karinthy (1921), Flóra Kádár (1928), and Gergely Kulcsár (1934).

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Among POLITICIANS In Hungary

Among politicians born in Hungary, Tom Lantos ranks 112. Before him are Tibor Szamuely (1890), Sándor Wekerle (1848), Gyula Kállai (1910), Jenő Fuchs (1882), Jenő Fock (1916), and Johann Löwenthal (1810). After him are György Lázár (1924), István Bibó (1911), Sándor Simonyi-Semadam (1864), Gordon Bajnai (1968), Kálmán Széll (1843), and Menyhért Lónyay (1822).

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